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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Micro-manufacturing"”.
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Accounting information in micro manufacturing enterprises in Libya.
… programme of research was conducted in selected micro manufacturing enterprises (less than 10 employees) in Libya. This research is an exploratory study as it represents the first attempt to study accounting information in micro manufacturing enterprises in Libya.The Strauss and Corbin (1990; …
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Design and construction of a novel reconfigurable micro manufacturing cell
… space and time. In the 1990s, the concept of a microfactory was introduced in order to achieve better usage of these resources by scaling down the size of the machine tool itself. Several industries can benefit from implementing such a concept, such as the medical, automotive and electronics …
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An integrated framework for developing generic modular reconfigurable platforms for micro manufacturing and its implementation
… wide use of the Internet have great impacts upon manufacturing in the 21st century. Micro manufacturing will play an increasingly important role in bridging the gap between the traditional precision manufacturing and the emerging technologies like MEMS/NEMS. The key requirements for micro …
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Fundamental studies on the blow forming of polymeric micro-tubes and components
There is increasing demand for micro components in large quantities for medical as well as non-medical applications. To a large extent, the required component are hollowed shaped made from polymers such as micro-needles for drug infusion, microfluidic systems for the life-sciences, micro-pumps and …
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In-process measurement of micro-contact printing
In micro contact printing, a polymer stamp with sub micron features is use to pattern a substrate. Micro contact printing has many applications including micro machined circuits and miniaturized biological test kits. Success in printing has been achieved in limited batch processing of plate to …
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Silicon wafer integration of ion electrospray thrusters
… with silicon emitters. More importantly the micro-manufacturing approach offers key advantages in flexibility and overall performance. Through adaption of a innovative approach to black silicon surface treatment, it is possible to tailor hydraulic impedance in order to maximize propellant …
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Electrical-field activated sintering and forming of micro-components
… the process concept for the manufacture of micro-components and to design the die sets along with other tooling for machine setup to enable the forming of micro-components from powder materials. A comprehensive literature review on micro-manufacturing, size effects, powder metallurgy and the …
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Electrical-field activated sintering and forming of micro-components
… the process concept for the manufacture of micro-components and to design the die sets along with other tooling for machine setup to enable the forming of micro-components from powder materials. A comprehensive literature review on micro-manufacturing, size effects, powder metallurgy and the …
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Vision based iterative learning control for a roll to roll micro/nano-manufacturing system
Nano and micro-manufacturing has emerged to be an essential component to progress in many areas of science and has huge potential to foster innovation and economic growth. Recent advances in micro/nano-manufacturing have transitioned from batch modes of fabrication on the traditionally rigid …
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High Speed Instrumentation for Inspection of transparent parts
In micro manufacturing (MEMS, polymer hot-embossing, polymer roll-to-roll imprint, etc.) precise micro and nano-sized features are distributed over large areas. In order to inspect for defects or employ statistical process control on micromanufactured parts, metrological instruments must collect …
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Design of meta-materials with novel thermoelastic properties
The development of new techniques in micro-manufacturing in recent years has enabled the fabrication of material microstructures with essentially arbitrary designs, including those with multiple constituent materials and void space in nearly any geometry. With an essentially open design space, the …
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Hot embossing of polymeric tubular micro-components
Technical and market demands of tubular micro-components have led to the development of a hot embossing process and corresponding machine for shaping polymeric micro-tubes. The targeted tubular micro-components are of an initial outer diameter of 1.6mm or below, and have reduced inner feature in …
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Development of a hybrid process for manufacturing surgical-grade knife blade cutting edges from bulk metallic glass
… surgical knives. To this end, a novel hybrid manufacturing process integrating thermally-assisted micromolding and micro-drawing has been developed for producing BMG surgical-grade knife blade cutting edges with edge radii <25 nm. A hybrid process testbed was designed and used to successfully …